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upgive

upgive verb: to give up or yield up.

Verb

upgive (third-person singular simple present upgives, present participle upgiving, simple past upgave, past participle upgiven)

  1. (poetic, transitive, obsolete except in Scots law) To give up or yield up.
    • […] we hereby resign, surrender, upgive, overgive and deliver, ALL and WHOLE — (here the lands were described) — together with all right, title and interest whatever […]1811, Robert Bell, A System of the Forms of Deeds Used in Scotland, page 116
    • Then, too, are Jersey's sons all resolute, / Repairing to the camp in numbers great, / Their sufferings to avenge upon the foe, / Which all must cease should Jersey be upgiven.1849, Robert Wharton Landis, Liberty's Triumph: A Poem, page 255

Forms of upgive

third-person singular presentupgives
present participleupgiving
pastupgave
past participleupgiven

Origin of upgive

From up- + give. Cognate with German aufgeben (“to abandon, give up, quit”).

Questions about upgive

What does upgive mean?
Upgive means to give up or yield up.
What part of speech is upgive?
Upgive is a verb.
What is the past tense of upgive?
The past tense of upgive is upgave.

Words near upgive in the dictionary

  1. upgird
  2. upgirded
  3. upgirding
  4. upgirds
  5. upgirt
  6. upgive
  7. upgiven
  8. upgives
  9. upgiving
  10. upglance
  11. upglanced

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